In 1983, she played the title role in a made-for-television film called Policewoman Centerfold, in which her character, a divorced police officer, is fired after posing nude for a men's magazine (based loosely on the true story of Springfield, Ohio patrolwoman Barbara Schantz, who was subsequently fired from her job after posing nude in Playboy magazine in the early 1980s). She also starred in the 1986 made-for-television movie Beverly Hills Madam, which starred Faye Dunaway. From 1992-1993, Anderson portrayed Natalie Marlowe, and briefly her twin sister Janet Dillon also, on the soap operaAll My Children.

She starred as Edie Adams in the television film Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, opposite Jeff Goldblum as Ernie Kovacs and played the coveted role of Marilyn Monroe in the 1993 television movie Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair. Her last television appearance was in 1995 as a guest star in the short-lived CBS revival of Burke's Law. Besides playing Dale Arden in the cult classics Flash Gordon and female lead in Dead and Buried, she also appeared with Nicolas Cage in The Boy in Blue.[citation needed]

Anderson graduated from New York University in 1997. That same year, she began to develop and became Coordinator the "Family & Friends Program" and "Intensive Out-Patient Program (IOP)" at Hazelden New York. She is a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) in the states of New York and California,with private practices in Manhattan and West Los Angeles. She also facilitates therapy groups at several treatment centers in the LA area. Anderson is currently working on a book for parents with kids who use drugs and alcohol while continuing to paint, sculpt and sell her work.[2]

Anderson holds an Honors Bachelor Degree in Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and Masters of Social Work from New York University's Shirley Ehrenkrantz School. Her post-graduate studies include family training at the Ackerman Family and Training Institute in New York and certification in trauma treatment as a Level II-EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) specialist.[3]

Anderson is an international lecturer and media spokesperson on addictions and the family, and has presented about substance abuse and other mental health-related areas of study.[4]